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Here is the radical book by Momodou Ceesay. A story about an artist struggling with the world and wanting to have an audience with God.  Far from being a religious book this is a radical look at the way in which leaders of the world are busy turning their eyes to the truth. Here is an artist from the Gambia, who trained in the States and speaks perfect French from the Sorbonne in Paris. He is a man now in his sixties and who has so much knowledge and life experience within his being. His voice is clear and forceful. His words from the book have been spoken at Action Aid meetings and follow a clear message of human rights and human betrayals. Here is a voice of reason and echoes the thoughts and issues of our troubled world of today. This is a book to be read and houses 36 prints by the artist.  Here is the link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knees-Before-These-Mighty-Heavens/dp/1578640660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277737909&sr=8-1 * N.B. The price has just jumped up from £9

Let us look at Opera as a form of rebellion as the tartan kilt was used by the Massai in Kenya and rebel ethnic groups in southern parts of South Africa in opposition to British/English occupation. Opera is all about the voice. The loudest voice ever. The Opera is sung in languages unfamiliar to the audiences listening and subtitles are given alongside the show in order to inform the listening what is being said and performed. Write Operas in your local languages, your tribal voices, your ethnic group tones. Nigeria would be a classic place to start as it has numerous States and far too few are properly represented as the major 4 ethnic groups take the lion's share. It would be marvellous if the Buseni Tribe (Biseni) of Ijaw State, Nigeria were to write an Opera for Nigeria's 50th Birthday and have them perform the Opera at the Royal Opera House in London, England. An alternative would be the Hamar or Hammere tribe in South Western Ethiopia. One of the smallest tribes in Ethiop

Gates to Intent We need more education. What is your intent? We need more love. What is your intent? We need more understanding. What is your intent? We need more clean water. What is your intent? We need more money. What is your intent? We need to ask the right questions. What is your intent? Intend to be brilliant. Today. Tomorrow and forever and ever. Awomen, Amen. JP. 2010 ----- So.....What is my intent today? What do I intend to do on this very day? Well maybe we can change a few things around a little...just maybe. I understand we have wonderful singers on the Continent of Africa and throughout the Caribbean. Why don't we ask for an Opera to be written and created and performed worldwide. Let us start at the Milan Opera House and move to Paris and then London and finally ending up in Sydney. Let us put pressure on the main vein of high culture. I, personally know that Prince Baba Tunde Epega loves Opera and he spoke on an LA radio interview as having been to an Opera in Lagos

Neem  ( Azadirachta indica ) is a  tree  in the mahogany family  Meliaceae . It is one of two species in the genus  Azadirachta , and is native to  India ,  Myanmar ,  Bangladesh ,  Sri Lanka , Malaysia  and  Pakistan , growing in  tropical  and semi-tropical regions. Other vernacular names include Neem ( Hindi ,  Urdu  and  Bengali ), Nimm ( Punjabi ), Arya Veppu ( Malayalam ), Azad Dirakht ( Persian ), Nimba ( Sanskrit  and  Marathi ), DogonYaro (in some  Nigerian  languages), Margosa, Neeb ( Arabic ), Nimtree, Vepu, Vempu, Vepa ( Telugu ), Bevu ( Kannada ), Kohomba ( Sinhala ), Vembu ( Tamil ), Tamar ( Burmese ), sầu đâu, xoan Ấn Độ ( Vietnamese ), Paraiso ( Spanish ), and Indian Lilac ( English ). In East Africa it is also known as  Muarubaini  ( Swahili ), which means  the tree of the 40 , as it is said to treat 40 different diseases. Neem is a fast-growing  tree  that can reach a height of 15–20 m (about 50–65 feet), rarely to 35–40 m (115–131 feet). It is  evergreen , but in sev

Bee Dreaming Dream about the bees! Not the birds but the bees. The African and Caribbean bees! Muddles has bees up the chimney stack. The Queen has come and is in the house. The reality is here!  Joy is in the air... Dream about the bees! Busy buzzing, busy being bees, buzz, buzz. Just Dream! Muddles African Caribbean bees are in the house: Wise old owl is Tessa, the unpredictable genius. The hive is forming and the soldiers working. The Queen has arrived.  The Queen is in the house. Dream about the bees!  Dream about the bees and their honey-cane plantation. The honey is slowly dripping on the firebacks today. Natural sugar for the household, for efforts made. Dreaming the dreams of the equal insect and the idea of the greater good. Dreaming the dream of equality, stupidity and the natural order of things. We see things differently but clearly at Muddles. The African Caribbean Dream will be realised. Joy is in the mix and part of the messy Muddles. The dream has been dreamt now. All w

                                                                  Tony the Terrorist Tony the Terrorist, the new King of the Jews. Making them do things. Bad things, terrible things. Things unbecoming of Jews. Tony the Terrorist, the new King of the Jews. Has them killing children. Starving populations. Becoming a natural disaster. Tony the Terrorist, the new King of the Jews. Cares less about others And more about land. Unpromised with hate. Tony the Terrorist, the new King of the Jews. Smiles as he kills. Chuckles as he waves, in a New World order. JP, 2010 Please take a read of the £2 billion Gas Reserves Found off the Coast of Gaza. My British Gas bills went through the roof this month...now I know why. Cheers Tony the Terrorist! http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/46534,news-comment,news-politics,will-palestinians-ever-benefit-from-gas-reserves-off-the-gaza-coast

Put me on a pedestal, raise me up as high as Admiral Nelson. Put me on a pedestal. Let me have a word in Nelson's shell-like. Put me on a pedestal. Let me whisper in the ear of the Admiral. The Victory is ours. Put me on pedestal and raise me to the sky. Put me on a pedestal. Let us look down at our Victory Ship. Our message in a bottle. A Member of the Empire created this ship. A decent member of the Commonwealth has had his day. This Black British: Englishman of Nigerian decent: This Nigerian/British living in the United Kingdom...... This Englishman. This Artist has spoken. Put Yinka on a pedestal and raise him to the heights. The Voodoo Flags are flying in the Victory Ship today. Put us on a pedestal. Raise us as high as high can be. Put us on a pedestal. Put us on the map. Yinka put me on a pedestal when I was on Facebook; "Too-Busy To-Work" and he told me to do this as an art piece. He put me on a pedestal so put him on pedestal. He is a 'Pedestal Person' li

I have never read the speech that Thabo Mbeki made at the United Nations before and so thanks to Sane in Uganda I see Norman O'Flynn's work in a rather new light. He has answered the issues of the African Renaissance with such artistic force.....what is to become of these magnificent paintings? We have an artist willing to speak out for the entire Nation of South Africa. The question now is what we should do next? I think the best place for these works are in the new African Museum being built in New York. That could be an idea? Perhaps, Paris would appreciate these works....maybe somewhere in South Africa? The work is quite extraordinary......well done Norman O'Flynn from Cape Town, South Africa.

Eria Sane has written me an email and I thought anybody and everybody interested in Africa should read it....Thank you so very much for this...finally some Sanity....Please read... South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks at the United Nations University 9 April 1998  THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD    We must assume that the Roman, Pliny the Elder, was familiar with the Latin saying, “Ex Africa semper aliquid novi!” (Something new always comes out of Africa). Writing during the first century of the present millennium, Pliny gave his fellow Romans some startlingly interesting and supposedly new information about Africans. He wrote:  "Of the Ethiopians there are diverse forms and kinds of men. Some there are toward the east that have neither nose nor nostrils, but the face all full. Others that have no upper lip, they are without tongues, and they speak by signs, and they have but a little hole to take their breath at, by the which they drink with an oa